I sleep in most days and wake up to see a pile of orders in my e-mail box that came in while I slept!
That, my friend, is a beautiful thing!
Have you ever considered turning your hobby or interests into an income? It may be easier than you think. Just read my story!
"I am 33 and purchased this website (my first SBI site) in late 2004. I must admit that I put off building a website for my business for awhile because I was intimidated by the technical side and overwhelmed by all the options. I was also confused, not knowing what the best solution would be. Some of the questions that ran through my mind were: 'Should I hire someone? Should I purchase a program and try to do it myself? Are any of the free programs any good?' I must admit I felt like I was getting in over my head. It seemed like so much work and so complicated...just not my area of expertise at all.
However, I knew I needed a site to advertise my in-home personal training business and my fitness book. All I was really looking for was a good solid website, I didn't really think I could earn residual income or have tons of free advertising from my website. I didn't think that was possible without a huge marketing budget, which I certainly didn't have! In fact I had less than $1000 to my name at the time.
A few months after purchasing my first site I purchased a second site for my husband's herbal tea product (bulk-essiac-tea.com). The product is in high demand and the formula is a family secret. Therefore, we had sales coming in right away that allowed me to do an aggressive PPC (Pay Per Click) campaign where you can actually purchase traffic to your site! Traffic which lead to sales. Over time, I was obtaining many personal training clients via my first website, homeexercisecoach.com. Now I have a third website, which is also a site for my husband's product discount-essiac-tea.com. And I am so financially secure now that I know I will never work have to work for somebody else again!
I didn't plan to become an entrepreneur per se, but looking back, I always liked to make and sell as a kid (I was number-one in Girl Scout Cookie sales in my troop in 3rd grade :), and I sold hand-painted woodwork pieces that I made in fifth grade). I never pictured myself in a cubicle from 9-5 every day, but I still didn't know what I'd do with my life. I love the freedom of working from home and not having to answer to anyone. And the income from both businesses is more than I ever expected to be earning at this point in my life, or maybe in my entire life. I couldn't be happier!!
I rave about SBI! to everyone I know. Some people are a little intimidated about having to learn the program & read the online help, and that sort of thing...I can't believe people can let their dreams die that easily. The program is not hard or too technical, but it does take commitment. All I can do is share the information I have about the progra, and it's the person's decision as to whether or not they want to try it for themselves. What people don't always realize is that, if they hire someone else to build a site for them, they never learn what's really going on and they have no real power to control their website or their life's destiny. Learning takes time but it pays back so much. For example, I used to be a personal trainer at a number of gyms, but I struggled to make money and I did not have my own site. Some of the other trainers did well...They all said I was crazy to leave. Their argument was, if I couldn't get clients in a health club, how on earth would I be able to get them out on my own?
Now I have more clients in-home than I ever had at gyms, and even many clients that attend the very gyms I quit working for, but now I get to keep the entire session rate. They hire me as an exercise advisor even if I can't enter the facility with them. Luckily I am good and quick at creating content, which I was doing already via my book and newsletter. The transition to web pages was easy. Some people get fancier with the layout and graphics, and SBI! makes it pretty easy to do that, but I have chosen to keep the pages simpler for now, and focus on adding content, which is really how your pages get more "hits," or visitors. Over time I can always go back and change the look and feel to the sites if I want to.
There is so much to do so little time, but it's a good problem to have. I have so many ideas on how to expand the businesses. We have hired people, both trainers and herbal workers, so help because we are so busy now. I feel for people like my parents. They have been floundering between working for low pay and getting laid off. They are bitter about the economy and their struggle to hold a job and think a graduate degree is the answer to a financially problem-free life. I stopped at a bachelor's degree because I wanted my business more than another degree, and I have been so busy with that and educating myself in other areas. My parents, like many people we know, think you need to go to school, and go as far as possible as you can in school, and then get a job somewhere to do well financially. My father says he would love to open a fresh-foods market in town, but he hasn't taken the plunge and become an entrepreneur. I encourage him and I have told him about SBI! I even said I'd buy him a site but he didn't want to try. I hope one day they change their minds, but all I can do right now is lead by example with my success.
My father, as well as other people teased us in the past for not having "real jobs." They said it would never work...until they saw how much money was coming in. Now they just ask how we did it, and so fast. SBI! had a ton to do with it! One year ago I had almost nothing to my name. That's all changed now!
I feel like the world is my oyster now and when I was in my third & fourth years of college I felt hopeless about my future. I was a psychology major and the job market isn't kind to people with a bachelor's in psychology. I didn't see how I would ever be happy in the adult world, because my parents had painted such a negative picture of grown-up life. They had no passion for their jobs and were always worried about money. Most of my personal training clients who are very wealthy have their own small businesses. I'm definitely sold on having my own business! It's the lifestyle I wanted even if the money wasn't that great, but fortunately now I have the best of both worlds: a great life, AND a great income. I love what I do during the day and I can work in my pajamas much of the time if I want to. And so far with SBI!, every year has been better and better.
My husband's life has changed, too. He used to work on a flat salary no matter how much work he did per week, with no opportunity for advancement, and no raises or bonuses in sight. Now he does basically the same thing during the day, but our essiac orders are through the roof, and he makes more money the more work he does now...which is the way it should be. It doesn't go to the big boss, it goes to the people actually doing the work (us!). He is thrilled that he can finally move forward with his life financially.
All I was looking for was an easy way to put a website up for my personal training business...but SBI! opened up my eyes to so many new possibilities. Once I saw how easy it was to put up web pages (each one took about 20 minutes, tops) I thought I might be able to build a website for my fiancée's herbal product, essiac tea, as well. Because I had zero experience building websites I wanted to make sure that some kind of support or manual was included to help me build my site. With SBI!, luckily I got it all. I was the perfect candidate to get swindled on a scam because of how little I knew about building websites, but luckily SBI! Is the farthest thing from a scam (They give you free new features all the time that many other companies charge extra for).
Anyway, the software included an online action guide that eased us through each step of the process. As I learned more about websites, I realized that I wanted web pages that advertised both my personal training business and also passive income opportunities for me related to fitness and exercise, such as product sales and pages for which I could charge for advertising space. I wanted to find the most profitable keywords to design my pages around. These keywords would be ones people type into the search engines such as Google and Yahoo when looking for fitness and exercise information. I especially wanted to know what health and fitness topics people were searching for and not finding. Then I could build my website around those terms. The software that helped me discover these keywords was very easy to use. All I had to do was come up with a general keyword related to health and fitness, such as "running." I typed this word into the text box and pushed the button. Then I left the software to do its work. I could actually leave my computer for the few minutes it took to do this. After a little while the software had done its job and presented us with a list of words it found.
This is how it works…The software sent the keyword "running" out to a bunch of search engines and did a search for websites using that keyword. It brought back a list of the top websites it found for that keyword. It then searched the code within those websites and compiled a list of all the other related keywords it found.
Along with the list of keywords the software also showed how many times each keyword was typed into the search box by somebody; i.e. the "demand" for the keyword. It then compared the number of times each word was searched with how many times it was found in the database and gave us a profitability rating. The more times the word was searched and the less times it's found in the database, the higher the profitability rating it receives.
The goal in all this, and what is so hard for someone without this software to do, is finding the words with the highest profitability. It's just like out in the real world where you need a demand for your product or service because, no matter how good it is, if no one wants it, it won't sell. For instance, a snowboarding shop probably wouldn't do that well in Mexico, but it would do much better in Vermont! If there is a grocery store in a town, but no grocery store in another town, you probably should build your new store in the one that doesn't already have a grocery store! You need to be something that people WANT and NEED. On the internet, you can be competing with the whole world, so you want to find the "holes" in what is currently being offered out there. This software program will help you find that. It's even less obvious to find these "holes" on the internet as it is in the real world, because you can't necessarily see them with your own eyes, and geography is less relevant. Someone from California can sell something to someone in Virginia, and vice versa. The world gets a lot smaller. Anyway, Once we got the list back from the first search on "running," we chose another word from this list to run the search again. This time we chose "weight lifting", another general word related to our hobby.
Again the software did its work and we were presented with an even larger list of words, which we studied and then deleted any words that weren't suitable. The last search was for "diet" and by the time the process was completed we had a list of over 350 keywords related to health and fitness that I could use to build a website about my business.
Each keyword could then be sorted by number of searches (demand), number of websites using the keyword (supply) and the profitability, which is a comparison of the other two. For each keyword I also got a list of other websites that use that keyword. I can use this list to find websites to exchange links with or to partner with in any other kind of business venture I can work out.
Once I had my blueprint completed, the next step was to register my domain name (which was included in the cost of the software!) The software helped me choose the best name for my websites and then registered them for me and does so each year without me having to worry about it.
Now it was time to actually build the site. The software guided me through each step of actually building every web page. I started by building the page about my personal training business, because I wanted that available for viewing as a first priority. After all, gaining more personal training clients was my primary source of income when I first started Solo Build It!. Once I had the page for "Home Bodies in-home personal training" up and running, I chose the most profitable keywords to build additional pages that hopefully, one day, would increase sales of exercise equipment and supplements and allow me to make more passive income, so that I wouldn't have to work out of the house as much if I didn't want to. I did the same for my herbal treatment websites. First I built the pages that listed the product for sale, and then I fleshed out the sites to include other information that would be useful to my customers and please the search engines so they would be more likely to rank my site for free.
Adding graphics and links is incredibly simple. I'm sure that my nine-year old niece could do it. The background images and all of that design stuff, well you can use the super-easy templates Solo Build It! lets you choose from (there are hundreds) OR design your own if you are so inclined. Solo Build It! Explains how to do it if you are interested (Personally I never spend much time doing that because I feel like I have "bigger fish to fry," which is creating great content). Once I build a page to the way I like it, I hit the analyze it button and the Solo Build It software checks the page and tells us where I need to improve it in order to make the page more likely to be found in the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Once I passed the test for each page, Solo Build It! submitted it to the search engines and then began watching for when the search engine spiders came crawling to our website.
Solo Build It then made sure the pages were entered into each index. If it isn't done within a suitable amount of time it will keep submitting the page until it's indexed. If the page is never indexed, it will never be found when someone uses a search engine, which means you are limited to people who already know that your website exists. Obviously it's much better to have more new people finding your page every day...and most importantly, people who are highly interested in your topic. You know they are interested, because they typed those keywords into their search engine looking for information on those topics.
Once indexed Solo Build It! continues to monitor each page to see where it ranks in each search engine and reports back to us on this ranking. If we aren't reaching a position high enough to earn substantial traffic, we can keep tweaking the pages until we get the results we desire.
After a few months I started to see an increasing amount of traffic coming from various search engines. As my traffic grew, more websites began linking to us and our traffic and rankings grew even faster. Try it yourself. Go to Google and do a search for "Gina Paolino Home Bodies". This is my name and the name of my business. Last time I checked, my website came right up in the #1 spot!
Solo Build It! lets you check on your website traffic stats and rankings with a couple clicks of the mouse. We just did a check for our website name "Gina Paolino Home Bodies" and found that we are number 1 on just about every major search engine. While this is a good thing, it's not enough. Ranking number one for something like that just means that no one else is calling themselves Gina Paolino Home Bodies, for obvious reasons…There is only one of me and my business! Many commercial web designers will try to trick customers into thinking that their website is popular in the search engines. While one day I hope that everyone will already know what "Gina Paolino Home Bodies" is, I would much rather be ranked high on terms like "Personal Trainer Massachusetts" because that way, even people who don't know I exist yet will be able to find me. Solo Build It! has me on track to come up first in the search engines for those general terms, too, but it does take time. I am able to confirm that I'm making progress by checking it once a month that I am getting closer and closer to ranking on top for terms such as "personal training Boston" and "personal trainer Massachusetts."
A survey done by Alexa.com found that 51% of the websites built using Solo Build It! ranked in the top 6 percentile of all websites based on traffic. All of the Solo Build It sites had been online for less than a year and this was from a database of over 16 million websites.
The tools you will receive make building and improving websites unbelievably easy and manageable, and are all included with Solo Build It!, for less than a dollar a day. Solo Build It! is adding or modifying their tools all the time to keep you up-to-date with the latest internet trends to ensure that you remain cutting-edge, all without having to understand that "techie" stuff. But even if you are technically inclined these tools can help you do your job much easier than any other product on the market today and at this point ever. The CEO of Solo Build It! Ken Evoy offered a $5,000 prize for anyone who could find a product or service that even came close to offering proof of success like Solo Build It does. After a 14-day search by upwards of 20,000 people there was no winner.
Solo Build It! also includes access to the Solo Build It! business forums. There are tens of thousands of SBIers around the world and many others have reached a high level of success with Solo Build It as well. The forums are moderated by a group of highly skilled people from all walks of life who are there to help each new website owner develop there own site to its maximum potential. It's like having a free business consultant who has already been through the trenches. Our philosophy is one of helping and sharing.
The cost for Solo Build It! is much less than the cost of a yellow page ad. More people are using the web to search for local businesses now and many search engines are introducing technology, which will enhance these types of searches. I actually dropped most of my Yellow Pages ads recently because I would go a whole year without getting a single call, and I was paying $250 a year for each listing! Yikes, that's a lot of wasted money! With my website, I am getting about 20 calls a week for my training business, and we are selling over 100 orders a week (over 400 pounds of herbs!) for the essiac herbal treatment.
When you become a Solo Build It! owner you can also receive up to 3 separate newsletters informing you of new features or ways of using the software. These e-zines are great because they summarize all the latest important trends in the internet world...so if you want, you can un-subscribe to any other internet and marketing e-zine you receive, and be confident that you aren't missing anything. Solo Build It!'s e-zines are like the "reader's digest" of internet marketing news. This frees up your time to actually execute, rather than spend all your time reading about what is new.
So with Solo Build It!, I have been able to stop all other internet and marketing reading, stop all my newspaper ads and most of my Yellow Pages advertising, and stop all other paid advertising, and focus just on internet marketing...all for $299/year. The time, effort, and money saved are unbelievable. I am making more and spending less on my business than ever before...and I have much more free time for myself. I was able to return to competitive gymnastics, which I had to give up before when I was starting my business because I just wasn't making enough money when I worked, therefore I had to work more and more hours to make ends meet. Now I take weekends and most evenings off and do what I love to do with my time. I haven't added web pages to my three sites for months, yet my income still continues to go up month after month. That's what is so great about a good website...it grows on it's own, much like good solid investments do. Rather than go to work, get paid, and have to do it all over again, you get to work once, wait, and cash in for a lifetime. We've reached the point where we have hired people to do most of the tasks our business requires, which frees us up to relax, or build the business further by working on the websites. I used to wake up early 7 days a week and rush off to work (a personal trainer's day starts early!). Now, I sleep in most days and wake up to see a pile of orders in my e-mail box that came in while I slept! That, my friend, is a beautiful thing!
My hobbies include working out, nutrition, gymnastics, herbal medicine, and natural health. By creating websites about my passion, I love what I do and I get paid very well for it. Perhaps those topics aren't your thing? Well, there must be something that IS your thing :) Find IT here.
Life is too short to not do something you LOVE! And you will be taken care of financially if you follow your heart, I believe that 100%!
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Since I became Team Videographer in 2014, I have often pondered the purpose of my role with the team, beyond just trying to boost follower counts on Instagram and view counts on YouTube. Only recently have I been able to put it into words.
My high school English teacher always preached that we must always answer the question, "So what?"
We just won our 7th National Championship. So what? We're the most-followed women's team in college sports on social media. So what? We have the most diverse roster in college gymnastics. So what?
My job is to answer that question - "So what?"
My job is to show people who these women are - as student-athletes, as teammates, and as people. Because once you see how funny, loving, hard-working, and relatable they are, it's impossible not to fall in love with them.
Every year at Nationals I shoot, edit and release a narrated behind-the-scenes video each day over the span of four days. It is exhausting, but very rewarding to push the limits of content creation in the gymnastics world.
This year, after four years working with this program, it was very emotional to be a part of our 7th National Championship, a come-from-behind victory for the history books.
Every year I've had the opportunity to honor each annual senior class by making a video that we screen in Pauley Pavilion during our senior meet. The Class of 2018 was particularly special for me because they were freshmen during my first year with the team, meaning that I've had the privilege of working with this group for their entire college careers.
Mic'd Up is a fan-favorite. There's no better way to show off the charming, hilarious and endearing personalities of our athletes than by letting the fans see how they are in their natural state during competition.
Every year I produce a preseason video series that aims to introduce our fans to the various personalities on our team. For the 2018 season, our series was "The Bru-lywed Game" (a terrible pun, but I still gladly take credit for it), which gave fans an adorable and often hilarious peek into the relationships between these teammates.
This is an old one, but I'm still proud of it. Samantha Peszek captured the 2015 NCAA Balance Beam title, paving the way for a line of UCLA Bruins who have claimed the beam title every year since (Danusia Francis 2016, Kyla Ross 2017, Peng-Peng Lee 2018).
A slew of former UCLA gymnastics legends came together in this tribute to Valorie Kondos Field, known to the gymnastics world as Miss Val, for her 25th year as head coach.
In what remains one of our most popular videos to date, we had our coaching staff read tweets from our student-athletes and guess who had composed them, predictably resulting in hilarity.
Since I started working with the team four years ago, we've put a lot of focus into growing and maintaining our Instagram presence. Here are some of my contributions to the team's IG account, which now has over 200,000 followers.
Relive last meet's 🔥 beam & floor rotations on this week's #BruinBanter with @katelyn_ohashi, link in bio!
@kyla_ross96 recaps the Bruins' PAC-12 championship win last weekend on #TheHunt. Link to full episode in bio.
We stand with all the survivors.


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Smartphones – Friend or Foe?
In modern Western civilization, I would venture to say, most of us own a smartphone. They are in essence another appendage, and being without that tether or lifeline could be cause for despair. I wonder though if this device is turning us into a zombie-like society that uses technology to think, instead of our minds.
During the summer of 2005 when I went on my healing cross-country driving, hiking and camping sabbatical, I used a road map. I really loved my maps. The pages were well-worn, dog-eared, and had many coffee stains. I had two maps: one was a Thomas Guide and the other, Rand McNally. My maps had details such as highways, urban roadways, gas stations, landmarks, and major hotels as well as campgrounds and more. I have doubts anyone under the age of 40 has ever used a map such as this. My maps and a couple of tour books were the only tools I had. I did have a cell phone, but this was when the phone was just a phone for calling, not equipped with all the bells and whistles of today's smartphones. I had it only for emergencies and as a means for family to reach me.
Using the maps made me an interactive participant in my travels. I had to know how to chart out the best routes to get from one city to the next, and from state to state. I had to know my fuel tank and how far a tank of gas would get me, so that meant I had to know how far in miles each gas station was as well as rest areas. Many times I had to quickly create detour routes to avoid construction or weather issues.
Maps also became a social tool. When I was in campsites, gas stations and rest areas, my fellow travelers and I talked at length over our maps. We pointed out routes to take, what to avoid, the best eating establishments for a budget and more. We felt like kindred spirits.
Fast forward to today. We have smartphones that can do everything, outside of satisfying our basic human survival needs (eating, sleeping, etc.). Instead of road maps, there are many applications for navigation. Google Earth is, perhaps arguably, top dog in the navigational arena. No doubt, navigational applications, GPS software, and similar products are useful. A quick search nets much more information than you could see on a road map. You can do searches and make calls, perhaps to ask about vacancies or to make reservations.
What happens when technology fails, for example, when you are in an area with poor reception? What happens if you drop and break your phone in the middle of Death Valley as you get out to take a photo with your smartphone camera? What happens when you don't have the basic skills to read and use a road map and youʻre stranded with no idea which way to head?
Using smartphones can dumb us down as a society. Technology is great, but itʻs very important to always have a backup plan. Nowadays, people are so tuned into their phones, and the ability to rapidly do searches is a phenomenal luxury. This comes at a cost, though, when people forget how to think with their mind. We are in essence rewiring our brains to think differently. However, this isnʻt always a good thing. Using technology to think in a superficial and automated way versus the ability to read, think and absorb deeply, using cognitive thinking, could be a detriment.
In August of this year, Michael Snyder shared an eighth grade exam from 1912. This exam illustrates just one way I think we are dumbed down. How many of us today, as adults, could take this exam using only the resources available to an eighth grade student a century ago? I could be wrong. However I do not think many would be able to carry out this task with those guidelines, myself included. Our smartphones are banks, encyclopedias, shopping centers, dating sites, tour guides, and so much more. If asked these questions, I would venture to say our immediate reaction would be to reach for our smartphone or iPad and do a quick search. Have our minds become soft?
Aside from navigational purposes, another aspect that could be considered a downside, and sometimes humorous, is how smartphones are interwoven into our society. They are an extension of our bodies. We take them everywhere and coddle them like little children. We buy them clothes such as skins and cases to look pretty and match our personalities or hard-case boxes to protect them. Isnʻt that what we do with our own children? We dress them up, we protect them, we keep them close and never go anywhere without them, we buy them insurance — and the list goes on and on. We assign ringtones, we use voice recognition software to type and do searches. I think some people think Appleʻs Siri is a real person inside that little box. It is quite comical. We have our lives in that phone. Our contacts, texts, emails, photos – itʻs all there. Without an online cloud-based server, we are in big trouble if something happens to our phone-child. There are even applications that can test our heart rate and blood pressure and give a diagnosis when we enter symptoms. It is a music player that has replaced mp3 players.
I, as with many people, have gone into a coffee shop and seen tables of patrons who are together, yet all on their smartphones. My classmate, Walter Bray, even mentioned this in his writings for class. Whatʻs especially comical is friends or family could be sitting right next to each other or in another room and, instead of turning or getting up to talk, they text. It is enough of a task getting a family together at the dinner table even once a week for face to face talk. Today, itʻs an equally large task to even get people to talk to each other. Really, we are creating a lazy, faceless, socially inept society. The benefits of technology are one thing; however, the benefits are definitely trumped by the side effects.
What surprises me also are the types of people I have seen with a smartphone glued to their ears. Monks and Nuns — I especially find it unusual that they even use them. I have always thought of them as rejecting the modern conveniences of society, of considering things such as smartphones as a material possession want rather than a need. Standards and levels of acceptability have really changed in our society.
Also, before smartphones, we had no choice but to use our voices. How many times have you sent a message and then immediately after smacked your head with the palm of your hand while uttering "Duh!" and regretting sending it? We hide behind our smartphones, our thumbs feverishly typing venomous words, and without a face in front of us, we don't have the usual checks and balances. We type first, think later, regret immediately. Did you know there are even etiquette classes to discuss this very issue?
Technology is a wonderful tool. It can get us out of a jam, book a romantic dinner reservation to surprise our sweetie, pay a bill, and it is a great business tool. It can also be a detriment. I think we are creating a zombie society: we move slowly, not aware of what is going on because weʻre either tired or will-less, speechless humans operating with automatic movement. Yes, the standard definition of "zombie" is the walking dead. Really, we arenʻt that far removed. There is no brain-eating going on and while not voodoo in the truest sense of the word, isnʻt it similar? These little devices can captivate and control humans and turn us into little marionettes. Who is the true puppeteer and thinker here – is it the human who is holding the device or is it the device itself?
At the beginning of the year, Harvard Business Review ("Vision Statement") released statistics about how much time we spend on our smart phones and what our activities are. Per HBR, an average of 46% of the time is spent on "me time," which includes basically just surfing the net or watching movies. What is not included is email and SMS – two of the largest activities – so the numbers are even greater. Who remembers when "me time" was spent taking a walk, having a bath, sharing a romantic dinner, going for a drive or to a park or visiting friends? I remember when watching a movie meant actually going to the movie theater!
Smartphone obsession is an international phenomenon. While the HBR report did not include email or text/SMS, van Rijn, a writer in the Netherlands with a company called emailmonday, has done an excellent job gathering and conveying a massive amount of statistical information. He includes a chart about how much time different countries spend accessing email from their smartphones.
Itʻs definitely worth taking the time to look through, as well as doing your own research to see just how much of your own time is spent on a mobile device, and this isnʻt limited to just smartphones. iPads and other tablets are in the same arena now as smartphones. I am just as guilty of this. When I give someone my number, I always add that I do not answer my phone often and that I am more of a texter than a talker. Children are often the topic of discussion, with their own zombie-like personalities when they spend hours on end in front of their players. Perhaps we as adults should scrutinize our own actions. Children mimic what adults around them do. If we are not better examples, then we can hardly complain about the children.
For about a week, I lent my smartphone to my partner to use for a media project he was working on. He wanted to use the HD camera and video functions on my phone. That was an interesting wake-up call for me. I turned over my phone without hesitation because he needed it. Also, I told myself that if I cannot do without the phone for a few days, then I should not have it at all. Suffice to say, it was a very long week! I found myself many times reaching for my phone. I did not realize how much of an automated zombie I had turned into. I constantly reached for it to text, check my email, check the bus schedule, surf the web, you name it. I used that phone as a space filler, and I discovered I crossed over to the other side and forgot how to use my mind. I even had magazines and books with me to read for pleasure to pass the time. However, when I picked them up, I could not focus on them. I was so used to my little mind-numbing smartphone that it is as if I forgot how to read a magazine for pleasure. I had nothing to distract me or make me look unapproachable. After a couple of days of this, I realized how I needed to get out of that zone and start using it again as a tool and not let it control my life.
Smartphones are great tools. However, they cannot take the place of our ability to think.
Bray, Walter. "The Conductor." Leahi: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction 14 Nov. 2013. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
Snyder, Michael. "Newly Discovered Eighth Grade Exam From 1912 Shows How Dumbed Down American Has Become." The American Dream 12 Aug. 2013. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
van Rijn, Jordie. "The Ultimate Mobile Email Statistics Overview." emailmonday n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
"Vision Statement: How People Really Use Mobile." Harvard Business Review January-February 2013. Web. 10 Dec. 2013.
Back in July 2012, I collaborated in the Italian subtitling of http://www.amara.org/en/videos/pH2ueEIbImzz/info/google-io-2012-keynote-day-1/ , about the Nexus 7 smartphone, Google Glass and the Jelly Bean version of Android. I got so fed up with the overuse of "exciting" and "excited" by the Google staff in this over-two-hours video that shortly ater that, when I lost the electrical cord of my definitely unsmart, 2001 vintage cell phone and was unable to buy a new one, I spent a whole afternoon looking for another as-unsmart second hand cell phone, which probably cost me more than I'd have paid for that Nexus 7 smartphone. But it does just what I want it to do.
However, months before this subtitling, I had got a tablet running on Android and I've been very happy with what I can do with it (I haven't allowed it to geolocalize me, though): so I'm not against smart stuff. More than what it does to our social relations it's the "cool" "exciting" hype around it that irritates me. No problem with nuns and priests or grandmothers using smartphones: they probably just use them because they need to do what they can do with them.
Before you were born, it was "Television – Friend or Foe?", with pretty much the same arguments you developed here. Then same with fax, videotape, e-mail, the Web. Then Nicholas Carr's mistaking his problems for Google's. This topos possibly goes back to the first use of voice as a communication tool. Tools are tools, not friends or foes.
Renee covers the good and bad of smart phones. Step back a moment and remember how those pocket calculators were going to dumb us all down. I have to wonder if slide rules were assigned the same blame. I couldn't afford a slide rule until I reached college and was required to have one. Taking exams without my slide rule would have meant fewer questions answered and more mistakes made.
Map reading remains a topic for most science curricula. Look at a topographic map to find the steepest spot. Your phone won't do that yet.
I cannot believe how many people I see going about ordinary tasks such as shopping for groceries with their phones to their ears — and their not talking shopping lists. I don't like to be bothered unless it's important or it's from friends and family at distant locations letting me know they're safe and happy (or asking for help if they're not).
I prefer the asynchronous text and email to synchronous voice for most things. That way I'm not being interrupted in the middle of something. Our mobile phones help here by allowing me to have a business meeting anywhere. I once did business while on a hike in the Angeles mountains.
I don't think that smart phones take our thinking away. They just enable that to happen more readily. We have always had those who choose not to think, but they had more problems than those same types do today. It also wasn't as obvious who they were. If you have learned good thinking skills, they won't disappear as soon as you get a smart phone. Instead, you'll use that phone to expand your consciousness and become, in a sense, smarter.
I'll repeat that smart phones (they're not really smart at all) enable lazy thinkers to become more lazy in thinking. They don't take thinking away. Thinking, real thinking, is hard work (not the perspiration-inducing kind, of course). It becomes harder, even painful (metaphorically), if you don't do it often.
The above leads me, inevitably, to the conclusion that we must focus more on teaching thinking skills in schools. Instead, we seem to be heading rapidly in the opposite direction, Common Core and NGSS notwithstanding. Technological tools such as smart phones should expand our minds and our awareness, not the opposite.
If Renee is correct, then Ray Kurzweil's vision of the future becomes even more scary. I don't like what's in his book, The Singularity is Near, and don't believe his predictions past a few years out. However, when human minds can link to powerful computers, whether personal or global, Renee's arguments suggest that everyone will become thoughtless slugs vegging out on continuous entertainment and being programmed by some sort of Big Brother in change of world computing. Ray Kurzweil sees this future as the expansion of human capacity to think and to do. What if the opposite were true?
Teaching our young people how to think and the joys and rewards of good thinking skills will go a long way toward making the future look more like the Kurzweil version than the Imes version. Step by inevitable step (e.g. Google glass), we're heading there. Prepare or devolve.


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Hello there, I'm Matt, and I teach and participate in this "crazy good" activity known as pole walking, a.k.a. Nordic walking. It has literally changed my life! Please read on because it might just change your life too!
It's fair to say that I am a bit of a workaholic. I always have been, but I am slowly learning how not to be. As you might imagine, over the years I've spent a CONSIDERABLE amount of time sitting down behind a computer screen.
Consequently, I have suffered from chronic neck pain, headaches, debilitating lower back pain, sciatica, stiff shoulders, nerve entrapment and more.
You've probably heard in recent years that SITTING is now considered to be the "new" SMOKING.
Whilst you'll still see people smoking, you already know it's been banned from pubs and workplaces and the evidence of its detrimental effects on human health are well documented.
But sitting… Can this really be as bad?
The research and human health statistics definitely show sitting to be a significant risk factor in many health conditions.
Yet sitting, how are we going to avoid this in today's day and age?
Sure, that is a tricky one to tackle and there is clearly not one single solution.
The problem to your health, your performance in and out of work, your experience of pain, and ultimately fun with your family and overall feelings of happiness in life are directly linked to how much you sit, how long you sit, and what you do in the rest of the time in your day when you are not sitting.
So why am I labouring on this issue?
I am sure that you also sit down a lot. Where though?
Breakfast at the kitchen table? Driving your car to work through that traffic-jammed commute? On the bus or train? At your work desk? In the restaurant or canteen at lunchtime? In the waiting room at the Doctor's? At home with the family for dinner? Watching TV?
Good grief! It's almost impossible to avoid it.
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Preview - we take a closer look at the 3D RTS which was our pick for Game of the Show at last months ECTS
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The real-time strategy genre isn't exactly known as a hive of innovation, but every so often a game comes along to breathe some fresh life into the stale formula. Warrior Kings is shaping up to be one of these stand-out titles, which is why, having spent the best part of an hour chatting with one of the developers from Black Cactus as he demonstrated the game at last month's ECTS trade show in London, we hailed it as our pick for Game Of The Show.
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Marching off to war
Set in a medieval fantasy world of castles, cathedrals, pagan rituals and primitive fire-arms, Warrior Kings promises a healthy mixture of siegecraft, resource gathering and battles featuring hundreds of troops on each side as you try to regain your ancestral lands from a corrupt empire. The whole thing is rendered in real-time 3D with the now obligatory spinny-rotatey™ camera and, as well as looking pretty, the three dimensional nature of the world should also have a big impact on the gameplay. Putting your men on top of a hill will provide a number of advantages; allowing your archers to fire further, giving a melee bonus to your infantry, and of course forcing your enemy to slog their way up the slope to get to you in the first place as you pick them off from a comfortable distance. The focus is on tactics and the placement of your troops rather than simply building up a huge army and rushing at the enemy base, and Black Cactus are aiming to balance the game such that an experienced player can win a battle even when outnumbered, by positioning your troops well and out-thinking the enemy.
The pagans get ready to rock, complete with a tasteful human sacrifice in progress in the background
An important part of this is the use of formations, which allows a player to group dozens of men into a line, column, wedge or orb. Once this is done the whole group behaves as a single unit, making them easier to control. While this has been done before, formations seem to be far more fluid and easy to manoeuvre in Warrior Kings. Formations also effect the way in which the soldiers that make up the unit react to threats, and how they take damage and earn experience in combat. For example, if you place your troops in a column they will move rapidly but are vulnerable to attack and will try to avoid combat if possible. Put them in an orb formation though and they will arrange themselves into a strong defensive circle and stand their ground. If the enemy attacks your circle, much of the damage your men take will be shared out amongst all of the soldiers in that unit, making them harder to kill. Not only this, but groups of formations can be formed into larger armies that should work together intelligently. Place a line of pikemen and a group of archers on the battlefield and the archers will automatically run and hide behind the infantry if they are attacked, providing covering fire once they are safely out of harm's way. This didn't appear to be working properly at ECTS, but Black Cactus have another three months to tweak the system.
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Bloody peasants
The economic side of the game will play a major role in your war effort as well, and troops must be kept well fed to maintain their effectiveness. This should open up the possibility of epic sieges and lightning cavalry raids to destroy supply lines deep inside enemy territory. It's no use having an army holed up securely inside a fortress-like city if the enemy is left free to sweep through the countryside, pillaging your farms and destroying the carts that carry vital food to your palace. Eventually your men will starve once your stocks run out, reducing their health and leaving you vulnerable to attack. The variety of units on offer should also allow for a wide range of strategies, with each of the three factions (renaissance, religious and pagan) getting their own unique troops which you will gain access to as you develop down one or more of the three paths. Eventually you will be able to call on acts of god that can blight your enemy's crops, wheel powerful siege artillery out on to the battlefield and even call upon angels and demons that battle it out with flaming swords as they tower over your men.
Pretty, innit?
The game certainly looked impressive in action at ECTS, with steep mountains and rolling hills to fight over and giant walled cities to defend. The close-up screenshots don't really do it justice, and the animations make the whole thing feel more life-like, with flags and crops waving gently in the breeze and arrows zipping through the air. Meanwhile large groups of troops wheel and manoeuvre out on the battlefield, their formations smoothly flowing through narrow mountain passes and around obstructions. The individual soldiers are nicely detailed up close, but the graphics engine can still render hundreds of troops on screen at once without any noticeable slowdown, something which will be particularly important in multiplayer. With both Quake-style dedicated servers and RTS-style peer-to-peer games supported, up to eight players will be able to battle it out with a few hundred troops on each side, allowing for some truly epic battles. Naturally there will be all the normal diplomacy and alliance options as well, allowing you to share resources and gang up on each other as the game unfolds.
Warrior Kings was already looking very promising when we saw it at ECTS several weeks ago, and since then the game's release has been pushed back to early February to give the developers an extra three months to polish things up. With a little more work on the AI and unit balance it should turn out to be an interesting new take on the genre, and hopefully we will be able to get our hands on playable code in the not-so-distant future to see if it can live up to our high expectations...

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In order to obtain a great job, you need to do your research well and be better informed. Prior to applying for a job, run a background check of the company and be well versed with the job you are applying for. Research your market value and how it compares to other workers in the same field. Accordingly, you will know the salary you can demand and apply for jobs that offer you a remuneration in this range.
Setting up a professional profile on popular networking sites such as LinkedIn, Angel and Meetup is a good move. Make certain your profile is strictly professional and does not come with awkward posts and embarrassing tags. After all, you want the employer to form a good professional impression of yourself and how you can blend into their company seamlessly. You can even download the apps of these networking platforms and work on your job hunt from anywhere, anytime.
Utilize your smartphone to stay up-to-date on what is relevant in your chosen industry. Maintain your contacts either through online chat applications or social media apps. Interact with contacts who have the inside scoop when it comes to job opportunities and don't be afraid to join discussions on social media platforms. Networking, like this, goes a long way as you always have your smartphone with you and can so always stay connected.
Be sure to update your CV in a manner that blends in seamlessly with the jobs you are applying for. Install apps in your smartphone that helps you update your CV. For instance, you can utilize Google Drive to edit your CV and cover letter and store these documents in Dropbox. This way, when browsing for job opportunities, you have your CV stored safely in your phone and can so send it whenever you want while staying on the go.
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I'm not going to comment on the recent Amazon/Macmillan flap, because smarter people than I have already said it all, and you can find that anywhere.
What this issue did inspire me to do, on the other hand, is to look at The Book Depository again, and – hey, free delivery worldwide, and equivalent discounts to Amazon on the things I was looking at. I picked up a couple of Steven Brust books I've been wanting to catch up on – reading Jhegaala for the first time, and Issola (in which Vlad starts channeling Khaavren) to fill in the one hole in my collection.
I also went over to Webscriptions and got some nice cheap ebooks to read on my phone – Baen's HTML format books come in multiple files, with sensible length chapters, which are perfect for reading on the screen of a phone which can't do multitasking and thus won't let you skip out and keep your place. All of these are re-reads – The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game by Bujold, and the first three books in the Serrano Legacy sequence. If you haven't read them, I recommend them – spaceships, sensible engineering stories, and horses. It's military SF, but bearable.
Or rather, a few sketchy notes of things I'm going to have to acquire in the near future.
Spellwright, by Blake Charlton. (website) Complex written magic, disability, and murder mystery.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by NK Jemisin. (website) I'd been planning to pick this up since I first heard about her work, but it went abruptly up the list after reading her short story The Narcomancer on Transcriptase.
Manual of Detection, by Jedediah Berry. (website – annoyance warning: Flash, with embedded sound) The first plug I heard for this was "a reallly cool China Mieville meets Raymond Chandler with a dash of Jasper Fforde fantasy detective story", and how could that not appeal?
Nights of Villjamur, by Mark Charan Newton. (website) A brief look over the material online – since when I know I want to read something, I prefer to stay away from reviews and extracts till I've read the whole thing – gives me the idea that it's rather like China Mieville or Liz Williams via TS Eliot.
Hm. Most of these seem to be murder mysteries. Perhaps there's something in the SF/murder mystery intersection for this year, or perhaps it's just me. Bujold's GOH speech at Denvention makes a passing reference to a blood type system of genre, where SF is a universal acceptor and mystery a universal donor; I'm still of the opinion that they're on orthogonal axes, somehow.
This is precisely what it says – a history of the fantastic, beginning with mythology and moving through fairytale and the Gothic novel to the beginnings of Fantasy As We Know It and then forward to the present day.
The first text mentioned (in passing) is the Epic of Gilgamesh; the most recent is Alice in Sunderland (graphic novel, Brian Talbot, 2007). At 280 pages including chronology, glossary, and further reading, there's little enough space for any particular text, but plenty of them are given a thorough enough discussion that it's clear where they fit into the braided narrative of fantasy.
An extensive "Chronology of important texts" always invites the reader to tick off what they've read, and I'm mildly disappointed by my lack of erudition there; but I'm pleased to find that I'm familiar with most of the texts referenced in the main body, at least until the last chapter (2000-2010).
Clearly, I need to read more heavyweight-recent SF!


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'Bachelor' star Peter Weber, Kelley Flanagan back together: report
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Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan are back on after calling it quits over a year ago.Instagram/kelleyflanagan
Will you accept this rose … again?
Former "Bachelor" stars Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan are back together, a source confirms to Page Six.
The on-again couple rekindled their relationship over the summer and are "in a good place once more," the insider shares.
Reps for Weber, 31, and Flanagan, 30, did not immediately respond to Page Six's requests for comment.
Romance rumors started swirling last month when the pair were spotted cheering on the Chicago Cubs at a baseball game in Flanagan's home state of Illinois.
However, they have yet to confirm their reunion on social media.
The couple rekindled their relationship over the summer, a source tells Page Six.
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Although they briefly met before filming "The Bachelor," the attorney competed for Weber's heart on Season 24, which aired in early 2020. She was sent home right before the pilot got to meet her family.
Weber went on to propose to Hannah Ann Sluss during the finale, but they called it quits shortly after. He also had a brief fling with his runner-up, Madison Prewett.
Flanagan and Weber rekindled their romance in April 2020 but announced on New Year's Eve that they had called it quits — just before they were supposed to move in together.
Flanagan was a contestant on Weber's season of "The Bachelor."
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"Love is a funny thing," Weber captioned the since-deleted Instagram post. "It can make you feel on top of the world and it can make you feel a pain you wish didn't exist. I'm here to share that Kelley and I have decided to go our separate ways."
He went on to explain that while their romance didn't work at the time, he would "always have love" for his ex.
Both Flanagan and Weber spoke out about the tumultuous end of their relationship.
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However, the way Weber announced their breakup didn't sit right with Flanagan, who had apparently asked the former reality star to wait until the new year to announce the news.
"I asked him not to do it on New Year's, and I was like, 'Can you just give me a couple days to tell people?'" she said on the "Chicks in the Office" podcast last year.
While the pair never revealed the exact reason for their split, the lawyer did admit that she "went off on him" and things "ended really badly."
The pair started dating shortly after the reality series ended in 2020.
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Weber dittoed this sentiment weeks later, calling Flanagan's comments about their breakup "calculated."
"I'm gonna be so brutally, brutally honest with you guys … and just speak from the heart. I thought it was very calculated. Very calculated, very disingenuous. I didn't expect that from Kelley; it kind of caught me off guard," he said on an episode of his podcast, "Bachelors in the City."
"Kelley was the best relationship that I have ever had in my life. And [I] could not be more grateful for that 10 months that we did have together."
Although Weber claimed to be "100 percent moved on" at the time, it appears the couple are giving love another chance.
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Iran Passport Abdolfatah Soltani confiscated
On 2 October 2009, the Iranian authorities confiscated Abdolfatah Soltani's passport. At that moment Soltani was about to travel to Germany in order to receive the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award. He was also summoned at the Secretariat of the Iranian President.
The incident is a new example of a lengthy series of intimidations against Mr. Soltani. On 16 June 2009 he was abducted and brought to an unknown location. On 7 July 2009 it turned out that he was being held in the notorious Evin prison. After 70 days of imprisonment, of which 17 in solitary confinement, Soltani was released on bail on 26 August 2009. Soltani is charged with the endangering national security.
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Joint statement on the forced deportation of human rights lawyer Salah Hammouri
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Interview Nazeli Vardanyan: "Nothing can stop me as an environmental lawyer, I will fight until justice is done. International solidarity and support will guarantee the safety of environmental lawyers around the world"
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Killing of Eswatini human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko
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 * A lazy-loading collection.
 *
 * Loads only the necessary pages out of all the matching records in UserVoice API.
 *
 */
namespace UserVoice;
const PER_PAGE = 100;

class ReadOnlyException extends \Exception {
    function __construct() {
        parent::__construct('Read-only Collection');
    }
}

class Collection implements \Iterator, \ArrayAccess, \Countable {
    private $client;
    private $path;
    private $limit;
    private $per_page;
    private $pages;
    private $response_data;
    private $position;

    function __construct($client, $path, $opts=array()) {
        $this->client = $client;
        $this->path = $path;
        $this->limit = PHP_INT_MAX;
        if (isset($opts['limit'])) {
            $this->limit = $opts['limit'];
        }
        $this->per_page = min($this->limit, PER_PAGE);
        $this->pages = array();
        $this->response_data = null;
    }
    function count() {
        if ($this->response_data == null) {
            $this[0];
        }
        return min($this->response_data['total_records'], $this->limit);
    }
    public function offsetExists($offset) {
        return $offset >= 0 && $offset < count($this);
    }
    public function offsetGet($offset) {
        $value = NULL;
        if ($offset >= 0 && $offset < $this->limit) {
            $page = $this->loadPage(floor($offset / PER_PAGE) + 1);
            $offsetInPage = $offset % PER_PAGE;
            if (isset($page[$offsetInPage])) {
                $value = $page[$offsetInPage];
            }
        }
        return $value;
    }
    private function loadPage($i) {
        if (!isset($this->pages[$i])) {
            $url = $this->path;
            if (strpos($this->path, '?') === false) {
                $url .= '?';
            } else {
                $url .= '&';
            }
            $result = $this->client->get($url . "per_page=$this->per_page&page=$i");
            if (isset($result['response_data'])) {
                $this->response_data = $result['response_data'];
                unset($result['response_data']);
                $page = array_pop($result);
                if ($page !== NULL) {
                    $this->pages[$i] = $page;
                }
            }
        }
        if (!isset($this->pages[$i])) {
            throw NotFound('The resource you requested is not a collection');
        }
        return $this->pages[$i];
    }
    public function offsetUnset($offset) { throw ReadOnlyException(); }
    public function offsetSet($offset, $value) { throw ReadOnlyException(); }

    public function current() {
        return $this[$this->position];
    }
    public function key() {
        return $this->position;
    }
    public function next() {
        ++$this->position;
    }
    public function rewind() {
        $this->position = 0;
    }
    public function valid() {
        return $this->offsetExists($this->position);
    }
}
?>

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Two Greenpeace protestors entered the CBI conference at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London and delayed a speech being made by the Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which he was expected to announce the consideration of further nuclear power stations to offset the increasing gas prices being experienced by industry in the UK. The protestors, wearing yellow safety jackets over business suits, climbed up into the ceiling rafters and held banners saying "NUCLEAR: WRONG ANSWER", and dropped 'radioactive confetti' onto the delegates down below.
Greenpeace threatened to make noise and throw missiles at the Prime Minister should he make his speech. They requested a ten minute speech before Tony Blair's speech, but this was turned down by the conference organisers and the speech was delayed whilst delegates moved into an alternative room in the building so that the speech could continue without disruption.
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As towns and cities grow, they need matching infrastructure facilities. However, creating new or additional infrastructure facilities is not easy as these conflict with the existing facilities such as Rail-lines, Roads, Sewer lines, Water lines and Electric cables. ITD Cem has developed the technologies of Pipe Jacking, Box Jacking and Microtunelling which eliminates the problems that would otherwise be there when new roads, rail lines, etc. are being constructed in busy cities and towns. Use of this unique technology ensures that the normal flow of traffic continues even as new construction activities are in progress. This gives flexibility to town planners and developers to keep on upgrading and improving the infrastructure facilities of growing cities and towns. A large number of such projects have been executed by ITD Cem.
5.1 Km dedicated transmission main from Garden Reach Water Works of KMC to J.L Sarani to augment the water supply of South Kolkata region by Microtunelling mode.
4.05 Km of Trunk Sewer along D.H.Road (NH 117) by Microtunelling mode to improve the efficacy of Sewer Network of South Kolkata region. Alignment passed along Industrial zones, very busy Taratala Road & D.H Road (NH 117), below railway crossings etc.
22.5 Km dedicated transmission main from Palta Water Works to Tallah Pumping Station of KMC to augment the water supply of North Kolkata Region. Alignment consisted of 17.5 Km Microtunelling, 4 Km of Open Cut ,1.1 Km of Elevated mode of pipe laying. Alignment passed along Police Premises, Army Establisments, Cantonment Area, Industrial zones, very busy B.T.Road, below high railway embankments etc.
4.85 Km of Trunk Sewer from Gorwa Pumping Station to Shrenik Park by Microtunelling mode to improve the efficacy of Sewer Network of Vadodara City as a primary step towards Smart City, Alignment passed along Industrial zones, very busy R.C Dutt Road etc.
Design and construction of Pedestrian Underpass at Major Arterial Road in AA I, Near DLF IT Park at New Town , Kolkata. Size & length of Subway : 4.0 M x 2.70 M & 33.0 M long.
Design & Construction of Underpass at Bediapara Near Dum Dum Junction under Sealdah Ranaghat Main Line of Sealdah Division of Eastern Railway on Turnkey Basis Size of Box 10.5 x 3.8 M and 40 Mtr Long.
Construstion of Subway RCC Box 7.3 x 3.00m in lieu of L C No. 11 at Km. 12/12-13 (Jones Road) between Mambalam and Saidapet Stations (39 M long) and in lieu of LC No. 25 at Km 23/9-10 (Dharga Road) between Pallavaram and Chrompet stations (33 M long) by Box Jacking Technique.
Construction of Canal crossings by RCC Box Pushing at 5 locations and RCC Pipe Pushing at 4 locations. The pushing operation was carried out through hard rock by controlled blasting below running railway tracks.
Design and construction of Limited Height Subway by specialised Box pushing Technique at Mankapur ROB at Ch 5+165 on NH 69 in lieu of L C No. 294A on Et.-NGP Section Of C. Rly Size of Box : 5.0M x 2.50M x 57 Mtr Long, Cushion : 1.840M.
Construction of Dunlop Interchange in B T Road – Box Pushing of RCC Structure nunder B G Main Line Bridgw No. 1, Eastern Railway, at Dunlop Kolkata Size of Box : 9.0M x 4.859 M x 26 Mtr. Long, Cushion 2.690M.
Construction of underpass at Maithon.
Design and construction of a RCC horizontzl Box opening of I D 6.0M wide and 4.50M high and of approx length 99.8 Mtr by Cut and Cover method at a depth of around 2 Mtr below the existing road at Maithon Power Limited, Jharkhand.
Pedestrian Subway at Belghoria, Agarpara & Sodepur.
Construction of Pedestrian Subway by Jack Pushing technique below the Railway track approx size of Box will be 7.2 M x 4.0 M x 33.0 M long at Belghoria and 4.0 M x 3.8 M x 33.0 M long each at Sodepur and Agarpara.
The 128 year old arch Lothian Road under Bridge which permitted only a single lane traffic, was always a bottleneck for traffic passing under the railway track and hence it was decided to expand the area thoroughfare. ITD Cem (Then Trafalgar House Construction India Limited) rose to the occasion and installed six numbers box-shaped corridors by Box Jacking Technique, in two phases: 3 corridors were opened up in January 1990 and the balance corridors were opened up in September, 1992. The size of the central box was as large as 17m wide and 7 m high which fully occupied the entire space of the arch. Due to this construction, the busy S P Mukherjee Marg – N S Marg intersection now has a ten-lane underpass ensuring a very smooth flow of traffic.
The Howrah Improvement Trust proposed to lay one sewer line across the existing main tracks of South Eastern Railway. The original design envisaged the conventional "Open-cut-Method" which would have necessitated the railway tracks to be kept supported on relieving girders during construction, thus disrupting the railway services. To avoid this, ITD Cem (Then Trafalgar House Construction India Limited) jacked 3m dia pipeline of 40m length through the railway embankment using Pipe Jacking Technique in a record time of 18 days and this pipe functioned as a sewer line .
Construction of one Road Under Bridge of size 9.0m x 4.15m – 60m long beside existing old arch bridge near Secunderabad Railway Station.
Under Rail Bridge of size 6.20m x 7.055m about 49m long for Heavy Mineral Load traffic by box jacking technique.
Construction of four nos. rectangular Road Under Bridge of size (2 nos.) 8.5m x 5.84m of 34m length and (2 nos.) 4m x 4.85m of 35m length by pushing precast boxes through railway embankment taking thrust from thrust bed constructed over filled up soil.
Four Pedestrian Subways constructed at 4 different locations by Box Jacking Technique below busy NH-4 with total length of 157m of box pushing.
Four Pedestrian Subways constructed at 4 different locations by Box Jacking Technique below busy NH-4 with total length of 194m of Box Pushing.
Construction of two Vehicular Underpasses one 13.0m x 6.0m and other 9.5m x 6.0m each of 35m length below Road embankment.
Construction of five. 7.5m x 2.0m Twin Box Ducts each of about 50m and 15m x 5.5m Twin Box RUB of 50m length by Box Pushing Technique below running railway tracks.
Vehicular Underpass by pushing of precast RCC boxes through already two jacked underpasses below busy Central Railway Suburban tracks.
This underpass is one of the first box jacking work done in India by jacking precast RCC units in tiers.
Box Pushing Technique was adopted to form abutments and construction of RCC road slab in between the abutments to construct the Underpass below running railway tracks.
Construction of Underpass abutments and pier by jacking precast RCC units in two tiers.


For one week every year, a ski resort rocks out to celebrate its creator.
After checking in at artist registration my wife and I proceeded to the first event of the day, at least for us, a songwriters round table hosted by Christopher Williams and featuring Dave Place formerly of the band Phone Calls From Home as well as Jim Trick and Matt Maher. A more than excellent way to start off the morning. A good portion of the day was marred by inclement weather which caused the temporary shut down of the Mountain Top Stage. Now the Mountain Top Stage is just what it sounds like. In the winter Gunstock is a ski resort and the Mountain Top Stage is simply the front porch of the ski patrol shack and is to be reached either by a 60 or 90 minute hike up the mountain depending on your physical prowess or a 20 minute ski lift ride. These days I prefer comfort so you can guess how I get up there, although on the last day I did walk down. It took 42 minutes and I did it without falling or breaking anything. Some of the highlights of the day were sets by Tom Conlon, Mandisa & Crowder as well as Gabe Smith Pop Culture Icon. I got a chance to share some thoughts & observations on faith and art in a seminar entitled "Images Of The Eternal" to a rather receptive audience.
The day began with another songwriters round table hosted once again by Christopher Williams and featuring Robin Lane formerly of the Chartbusters, Tom Conlon and Michael Pritzl of The Violet Burning. Everyone sounded mighty fine sharing story and song. I was also introduced that day to a Nashville based band called The Vespers They have a very nice country/ bluegrass feel, the primary female vocalist reminds me sonically of Leigh Nash and that's just fine with me. A good portion of the day was spent listening to seminars given by Matthew Dickerson, Frank Schaeffer and Dale Kuehne, wonderful speakers one and all. The festivals primary artist the day was Switchfoot in concert and on film. I have seen them many times in the past so I took a pass this time around. From everything I heard they more than satisfied the kids. I called it an early evening and went back to the hotel for an evening of Pringles, soda & TV. It was nice!!!
For me at least, Saturday was the highlight day of the whole festival. With very few exceptions, Rachel Taylor being one of them, the main stage acts held little interest for me. The other stages especially Mercy Street & Mountain Top were the places where the magic happened. These are the places where the new kids as well as some of lesser known acts perform. By lesser known I mean people that might not get airplay on networks like K-Love but are still putting out tunes that are impacting the culture in a way others are not. For this old, climbing up on 65, radio DJ these are the people who are contributing some of the best rock n roll that I have heard in the 46 years that I have been doing radio. Singers and bands like the aforementioned Rachel Taylor, Tom Conlon, Jim Trick, Christopher Williams, Paul Phillips and The Violet Burning are putting out top of the line material and you can take that to the bank. The Saturday night line up at Mercy Street consisted of Scott Musick, Rachel Taylor, Paul Phillips & The Violet Burning. It was worth going to the festival for just that lineup in and of itself. With the demise of the Cornerstone and Purple Door festivals, Soulfest has the potential to become the most important gathering of artists and speakers in the country.